Tilkin Quotes & Sayings

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects. — Mary Shelley

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist. — E.L. Konigsburg

With Jackie it's totally different. She might be young but her soul speaks to mine. Her soul is bright yet weathered, having endured so much and come out of it still willing to shine. With her I can just be myself. I don't have to pretend. I don't have to guard myself. Maybe I should but if I did then I couldn't feel half of what I'm feeling. — Karina Halle

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life. — Bill Gates

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. — E. E. Cummings

The name's Pepper like the spray, so I guess you wouldn't want me in your face! — Mike Ferris

The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride - and prive loves loss above surrender. — Michael Flynn

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. — Ben Kingsley

I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of--- — Kristen D. Randle

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. — William Shakespeare

Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity? — Zack Love

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! — Kerry Washington

Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong. — Soren Kierkegaard

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did. — Claire Tomalin

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum. — Denis Diderot